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Brooke Stoddard Education. (2012) 'World in the Balance The Perilous Months of June-October 1940.'

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book thanks stoddard university smithsonian held peck hour mason great world talk hence river booktv george author coming much brooke joined mr castle called garrett potomac fall authors balance sql subtitle festival february annually 2013 speaking virginia appearing half
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book fall months festival stoddard every world brooke ii six war 1940 june span2 mason prior booktv george called authors started october balance perilous location watching university
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invade germany overrun september happening idea what 1940 june 1939 point peter union knock later hitler france europe poland intent soviet britain thereby started
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belgium french world majority war danforth coming coast rearrange completely similar paris behind south channel armored power generals send along
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dunkirk british certainly evacuation anticipation war put done next port army 1939 1938 must early maybe france french coming across channel started germans
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channel british french course tremendous low best blow army land fact lands leave place pushed really forced across dunkirk belgium evacuate continent
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evacuation british uniform ended crippled really trucks soldiers defense left equipment tanks problem guns backs dunkirk part england southern paris france
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late june weeks couple french may lot done 1940 felt lost days push went tanks reset place second battle france another several aligned germans country actually finished invasion military virtually
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june point paris conquered evacuation 22 wall down best hadn drop three weeks second france really french another writing towards friends certainly
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happened thought german dunkirk plan germans worked little evacuation part astonished contain french bit place british swiftly things quickly moving attack
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ocean pushed anywhere supposition considerable soon seen army fall among chaos haven ports german allied armies nation island amount channel mindset british finished realized
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evacuation ferries soldiers shortest churchill 20 17 000 mile trip told dots took path true king start lucky course little mythos looked england dunkirk highway barrier
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000 france french thought soldiers 17 340 500 men got help half went right looks parts number called britain defense instead dunkirk million miracle british
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much lucky happened attacked evacuation yes ways 1940 june bill book point fight worse hitler britain dunkirk focuses germans october british followed
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let mistake airfield negotiate government put fly cave plan many paris least might great maybe shock while forget german little troops seized england general goering hermann instead dunkirk germans british
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paris south countries government practically 16 led both city june stop drop hoped every knock ocean turned course france french wanted another pledged entered pleaded fighting continue churchill different
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peace pledge separate fighting mediterranean keep began release across north british talk churchill africa released unless french
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fleet french arithmetic battleships considerable big put navy part many world large german coming hitler france fourth reason largest worried bismarck churchill conquered
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fleet french together considerable mediterranean set put navy ally game keep lanes world along match fourth couldn island larger britain worried largest germans british italian happened implored fighting churchill controlled
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element tale agreement france conquered certain army interesting battleships totally french overwhelmingly germans decided little disarray drop try better
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france need britain government accommodation men grow part drop began saying french notion chaotic germans country british element fighting flinging continue approached
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union france citizen britain imagination cabinet cabin parliaments calling little every national country went skeptical accused let churchill england united propose
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part germans northern actually armistice really government southern cabinet presented french conducted sets agreement seriously vichy late country france
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government part country essential distracted two asia left vichy north coast along lower third spent place people africa thirds govern wanted toward correct expected colonies atlantic friendly negotiate agreement southeast
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french british attacking understood interesting key the navy fear drop keep ships terms fleet piece global hitler france wanted fighting continue important situation
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terms french strong strict negotiation term friendships accept forget allowed fighting thought agreement keep navy
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french british neutral germans agreement vessels happen words coastal always never something remain okay supervision italians defense friendships pledged kept certain
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italians anything mothballs desperate supervision five last keep years trust ships crews seize thing lawyer happen hitler things minute british another germans learned neutral sending promises
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idea french german agreement many operation ships friendships jun secret might june 22 british within possibly days seize
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large french england british battleships lot car west fled egypt hotel place fleet africa courts called escaped biggest finished plymouth somewhere scattered portsmouth casablanca alexandria
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british surrounded friendships operational battleships big idea easy july many force ships ports coast seize fairly couple called england figured morning cruisers catapult possibly algerian plymouth hopefully agreement portsmouth
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british kind naval thing french big port guns base egypt fleet ports around coastal radioed command flotilla batteries different situation admiralty alexandria
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terms fleet sail french course show gibraltar code dawn loyal july night 3rd
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fight germans port caribbean war martinique join friendships days allies ago sailors ships british sell sail
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admiralty inaudible everybody necessary neutrality six war ask lord knew twice ships means hours hands stand regret within assure prevent falling scuttle germans whatever churchill americans
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ships admiral england strategic french gibraltar thought possibilities abaco discuss radioed keen terms terrible friends captains attack navies
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french admiralty somerville government alternatives let idea hate firm read mind ships sales every accept second eating letter majesty admiral flotilla alienate destroyed intention gibraltar
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churchill somerville confidence relentlessly disagreeable big hms hood ever rely tasks carry since faced later night really message admiral sailing british charged bismarck complete flotilla hardball destroyed difficult
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orders government admiral furious happened dawn obey vichy terms power fleet friend french resent showed harbor outside meaning changed british foreign gensoul
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ve germans british violated agreement war yeah okay half given ships fight nazis fleet german orders hitler french million gensoul anything friendly controlled
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ve france intercepted interrupted reinforcements war send knew tough stall place slaves radioed decoded british gensoul drenched messages churchill prisoners factories admiralty dismantled
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kept great french tragedy deadlines 00 1300 open much tell fire sank ships large number killed gensoul sailors telling british stalling churchill community including discussed battleship understood sommerville
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talk battle britain british destroyers arms send spit fire mesha people impact french wanted schmitz actually emphatic churchill americans solicited important discussed
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guns british surrender neutrality isolationist end won army send left laws weeks kinds chief george france strong matter england america weapons advisor germans marshall fighting franklin military americans roosevelt sentiment skeptical
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headlines operation negotiate roosevelt government knew face world course secret around became british weapons germans thought serious everyone marshall effected charging happened
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britain much battle appreciated essentially re end let 1940 long stay date july calls brooke opened needed called pathway possibly stoddard official september armaments
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gensoul question probably happened stoddard let book tell ever sent read went right state never might spent final fleet people course brooke couldn damaged heavily admiral segment germans british stories
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